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HAWACH, Melissa; 2008, Flight of the Dragonfly

   For 174 days in 2006 Mrs Melissa Hawach was without her two girls.  Her husband had taken them away from Canada to Lebanon, and her family had to hire a security team in order to get them back.
[Picture] Click: Flight of the Dragonfly front cover.    Picture: HarperCollinsAustralia
   Although she had known Joe Hawach in Sydney, Australia, for two years before they got married, and appreciated his family's goodness, once they were married he had started taking issue with her if she wore slacks for too many days, and if she did not shave her legs, and because she played baseball and took university courses.
   Her daring bid to snatch the two daughters back from their father in Lebanon is the subject of her book Flight of the Dragonfly.
   Flight of the Dragonfly by Melissa Hawach was due for publication on Wednesday, March 26, 2008, $35. HarperCollins Publishers.
   -- STM, The Sunday Times Magazine (Perth, W. Australia), "A mother's mission," pp 22-24, March 23, 2008
   [MORE DETAILS: Submit 7 # A mother's mission …] [2008]

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WRIGHT, Lawrence; ©2006; 2007, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's road to 9/11

In November, 47 women decided it was time to challenge the Saudi Kingdom's informal ban on female driving. After their demonstration, Prince Naif banned the practice. The chief cleric, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz, called female driving a source of depravity. The women lost their passports. Several, who had been professors in the women's college of the King Saud University, were dismissed -- their students said that they did not want to be taught by "infidels." p 159 The Looming Tower, Lawrence WRIGHT

   "Music," he declared, "Is the flute of the devil." p 167
   There are three streams that fed the Taliban ... money and arms from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the madrassas (Koranic schools) in Pakistan just across the Afghan border (Pakistan has failed to set up a public education system); and opium which was taxed at 10 per cent, partly in return for keeping the roads clear of evildoers. p 227
   There is a disputed hadith that states that in the last days the armies of Islam will unfold black banners (like the flag of the Taliban) and come out of Khorasan. (He had fled to Jalalabad area, and started called the area Khorasan.) p 233
   In Egypt, on November 27, 1997, six Islamists entered a historic temple. The tourists tried to hide, but there was no escape. The screams of the victims were countered by the cries of "Allahu akhbar!" from the attackers. The killing went on for 45 minutes. p 257
   The men who came to train in Afghanistan in the 1990s were from the middle or upper class, largely college-educated. They were not over-religious, and none showed signs of mental disorders. p 301
   Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped speech found on the computer of a Hamburg cell member, quoted the Quran, 4th sura,

Wherever you are, death will find you,
even in the looming tower.

p 350
(Winner of a 2007 Pulitzer Prize.) http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/reading.htm#looming_tower DETAILS: Penguin Books, (©2006) 2007, London, ISBN 978-0-1410-2935-1; 470 pp, soft covers, 13 x 20 cm (5 x 7 7/8 in), index, photographs, bibliography, endnotes, author interviews, principal characters list, acknowledgements and notes on sources. UK £8.99, AUD $25.95, Penguin.
[KORAN (said to be the Angel Gabriel's message from Allah): 4:78 or 4:80:- Wherever you be, death will overtake you: though you put yourself in lofty towers. (N.J.Dawood translation, 2003 edition; similar in J.M.Rodwell's 2001 edition; but there is no word "lofty" or "looming" in Abdullah Yusuf Ali's, Saudi revision 1992-93 A.D.] DOCTRINE ENDS.] [©2006; 2007]
• GHAHRAMANI, Zarah, and HILLMAN, Robert, ? 2007, My Life as a Traitor

   ONE of Iran's youngest female political prisoners has been granted permanent residency in Australia, after being imprisoned for 29 days for campaigning for women's rights in Tehran.
[Picture] My Life as a Traitor front cover.    Picture: Scribe Publications
   Zarah Ghahramani was just 20 when she was taken off the streets of Tehran and transported to Evin, a prison the size of a small town, on the outskirts of the city. The prison is used by the Iranian regime to hold political prisoners.
   She was beaten, and her head was shaved. On release, she was dumped in a desert and stripped of her right to attend university. She was helped out of Iran by the Australian writer Robert Hillman, who has helped her write a book about the experience: My Life as a Traitor.
   Hillman met Ghahramani in June 2003, when he was standing on a Tehran street corner, notebook in hand. Ghahramani, who had only recently been released, noted his Western looks, walked boldly up to him and asked him if they could talk. …
   Iranian women are trying to collect a million signatures to force the Iranian regime to make changes that would give them the right to have access to their children after divorce, to give women's evidence the same weight as that of a man in court and the right of women to work in different professions. […]
   -- The Weekend Australian, "Iranian 'traitor' finds her freedom," by Caroline Overington, p 10, June 23-24, 2007

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/reading.htm#my_life_as_a_traitor [? 2007]
• ALI, Ayaan Hirsi, 2007, Infidel: My Life.

Infidel: My Life

, January 2007, By Ayaan Hirsi ALI

The astonishing life story of the renowned campaigner for religious tolerance and women's rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
   The brutal murder of the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh in 2004 shocked the world. Shot and mutilated by a Muslim fanatic as he cycled to work, it was a stark reminder of the dangers of challenging an extreme Islamic worldview.
   It also changed the life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, van Gogh's collaborator on the film that had offended his murderer. Born in Somalia and raised a Muslim, she had escaped an arranged marriage and made a new life as a Dutch parliamentarian, championing the reform of Islam and its attitude to women's rights. She now has twenty-four-hour police protection, but refuses to let that inhibit her willingness to speak out.
   THE INFIDEL is Ayaan Hirsi Ali's astonishing story. Recounting the extraordinary transition from a third-world upbringing to her current status as one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, it is a truly remarkable autobiography that is as gripping as it is inspiring. # (Booktopia synopsis)

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/reading.htm#infidel_my_life DETAILS: 368pp (says Barnes & Noble), Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Limited, Format: Paperback, Language: English, Dimensions (cm): 23.400 x 15.300, ISBN: 074329503X, ISBN-13: 9780743295031, US $31.46 at Booktopia. [2007]

PHILLIPS, Melanie; 2006, Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within.

   This book examines how and why this has happened. Two broad reasons are given: first, Britain no longer believes in itself, no longer cherishes its founding values, and no longer thinks it has a role to play in the world.
[Picture] LONDONISTAN: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within, Melanie PHILLIPS; Encounter Books website.
   Second, British authorities have seriously misjudged the threat of Islamic terrorism. Therefore Britain is engaged in a policy of denial, appeasement, blaming itself, and hiding its head in the sand. These two major factors have led to London becoming the "hub of European terror networks".
   Phillips examines numerous factors that have contributed to the demoralisation of England. Large numbers of Muslim migrants, multiculturalism, rampant anti-Americanism, secularisation, the victim culture and postcolonial guilt have all led to a loss of national self-belief. …
   This severely weakened national self-identity has been further encouraged by a decrepit Anglican church, which seems to have lost its theological moorings.
   "London has become the epicentre of Islamic militancy in Europe". That is, it has "become the major European centre for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamic terror and extremism". -- "Britain's homegrown terrorists," News Weekly (Australia), Book reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg, pp 19-20, October 14, 2006

“SOUAD”, 2004, Burned Alive; The shocking, true story of one woman’s escape from an ‘honour’ killing.

In collaboration with Marie-Thérèse CUNY, (orig. 2003), translated from the French by Judith S. ARMBRUSTER.

Also marketed as Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men
When "Souad" was 17, living in a Palestine West Bank Arab village, she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family – a dishonour punishable by death. Burned Alive, SOUAD

   This was her crime, and her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight. In the eyes of their community he was a hero.
   Miraculously, Souad survived, rescued by the women of her village, although she suffered horrific burns. It was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled her to receive the care and sanctuary she so desperately needed. She has now decided to tell her story and uncover the barbarity of honour killings,
   Burned Alive is a shocking testimony, a true story of almost unbelievable cruelty that speaks of amazing courage and of one woman's determination to survive. It is also a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices that ignores the plight of so many other women who are also victims of traditional violence.
   'The terrifying memoir of a young Palestinian woman . . . Her ordeal reveals the scandalous treatment of women that is the real human rights abuse in the West Bank' Sunday Telegraph
   Souad lifts the veil on life in a 1970s Muslim society in a simply-told, true account that chills, appals and ultimately heartens in equal measure … what you will take away with you is a deeper understanding of the strength of the innate will to survive. Ireland on Sunday
   Souad was saved largely by Jacqueline of a humanitarian organization, Terre des Hommes, directed by Edmond Kaiser. (see p 177)
   "I have met girls who have come from afar, as I did years ago. They are in hiding. One young girl has no legs: she was attacked by two neighbour men who tied her up and put her in the path of a train. … I have never met any other burned women. They haven't survived. And still I hide, I cannot use my real name, show my face. I can only speak out. It is the only weapon I have." (pp 292-93)
   Souad now lives in Europe. She is married, and has three children.
   ISBN 978-0-553-81630-3; UK £6.99; www.booksat transworld. co.uk ; Cover photograph © Katz Pictures http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/reading.htm#burned_alive [(orig 2003) 2004]
• LINDSEY, Hal, 2002, The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad book

The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad

, 2002, by Hal LINDSEY.

The Everlasting Hatred - World Net Daily

Author Hal Lindsey explains how, on Sept. 11, an ancient fight-to-the-death conflict exploded on the shores of the U.S. Though most Americans didn't realize it, we were already involved in this struggle. A struggle driven by a hatred that goes back over 4,000 years.
Islamic fundamentalism's purpose is to replace the Judeo-Christian world order with an Islamic world order. Every American needs to understand the enormity of the threat we face -- and why.
In the aftermath of 9/11 most Americans are asking:

Why do so many Muslims hate Jews?

Why do Islamic fundamentalists hate the United States and call it "The Great Satan?"

Why did Islamic terrorists sacrifice their own lives to kill Americans?

Do Islamic fundamentalists have access to weapons of mass destruction?

Could Islamic terrorists imperil the survival of the United States?

What light does Bible prophecy shed on this?

Does the Koran call for violence and conquest?

Are the Islamic fundamentalists an aberration of the Muslim religion, or are they - as they claim - the "followers of Mohammad?"
This book will answer these questions with both Biblical and secular history. It will also bring new hope to the coming "perilous times."

   Hal Lindsey's Acknowledgment
   I would like to thank my friend, Joe Farah, CEO of the news website, www.world netdaily.com , for his indispensable help in researching this book. He is a brilliant reporter and writer and he helped me in many ways during the course of this work.
   I would also like to give a special thanks to author, historian and reporter, Joan Peters. Her best-selling book, From Time Immemorial, has been my constant companion and reference source for over fifteen years. This is the most accurate, best researched and documented work I have found on the secular issues of modern Israeli-Arab conflict. I strongly recommend this book. It can be purchased through: www.world netdaily.com .

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/reading.htm#everlasting_hatred_the    DETAILS (from Amazon webpage): Paperback: 265 pages, Publisher: Oracle House Publishing (July 2002), Language: English, ISBN-10: 1931628157 ISBN-13: 978-1931628150, Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches, Shipping Weight: 1 pound.
   Critcism of From Time Immemorial is at www.capmag. com/article. asp?ID=2140 . "… Peters … wants to destroy, definitively, the claims of Palestinian nationalism--and she wishes to do so without rejecting Jewish nationalism." (To the Webmaster, Peters, and Lindsey, seem to be "End Times" Christians. If they believe in such prophecies, they ought to use their Concordances and find the New Testament prophecy that "some of you standing here" would not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. Unfortunately, this and similar prophecies did not come true. The claim of Peters' book that the emnity goes back 4000 years, when Islam is only 1400 years old, suggests a heavy reading slog through unprovable claims that Arabs are descended from an Israelite patriarch.)
   LINK/S: http://shop. wnd.com/store/ item.asp? DEPARTMENT_ ID=6&SUB DEPARTMENT_ ID=93&ITEM_ID=897 .
   www.amazon. com/Everlasting- Hatred-Roots- Jihad/dp/ 1931628157 , US$13.59 new, and cheaper used. [2002]

YUSUF ALI, Abdullah; Arabic text, and his translation into English and commentaries, revised and edited by The Presidency of Islamic Researches, Ifta, Call and Guidance (Saudi Arabia); Year 1413 H., i.e., 1992-93 A.D., The Holy Qur-ān (Koran)

Page 472; Sūrat 8, Āyat 12
12. Remember thy Lord inspired
The angels (with the message):
"I am with you: give
Firmness to the Believers:
I will instil terror
Into the hearts of the Unbelievers:
Smite ye above their necks
And smite all their
Finger-tips off them."
< www.submission.org/suras/sura8.html#12 >

Pages 507-8; Sūrat 9, Āyat 30
30. The Jews call ‘Uzair a son
Of Allah, and the Christians
Call Christ the Son of Allah.
That is a saying from their mouth;
(In this) they but imitate
What the Unbelievers of old
Used to say. Allah's curse
Be on them: how they are deluded
Away from the Truth!
< www.submission.org/suras/sura9.html#30 >

  FOOTNOTES: Page 2, footnote 15. "Each chapter or portion of the Qur-ān is called a Sūra, … Each verse of the Sūra is called an Āyat (plural, Āyāt), which means also a sign."
   Page 1029, footnote 3045. "Matter requiring collective action: anything that affects the Community as a whole: Jumu‘a and ‘Īd prayers … but what is meant here is, I think, joint consultations with a view to joint undertakings, such as a Jīhād, or some kind of organisation in peace.
   Page 2024, footnote 6292. "… before his ministry was finished, the soil was prepared for the conquest of the wide world for Islam. …"
   (CONTACT: More information, for Australia, at: < www.islam- australia. net > , e-mail < info@islam- australia.net > .)
   DETAILS: Arabic text with English translation of the meanings, and Commentary. Translation of the late Ustadh Abdullah Yusuf Ali (see page vi), revised and edited by The Presidency of Islamic Researches, Ifta, Call and Guidance (page vii). Printed at the King Fahd Complex For The Printing of The Holy Qur-ān, P.O. Box 3561, Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Saudi Arabia; 2140pp, 16 x 23.5cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches), hard covers, gold-blocked covers and spine; preface, contents, index, footnotes, introduction to each Sūrat. A gift for the spreading of Allah's Word by The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Fahd Ibn Abdul-Aziz; Not for Sale.
   [KEY: "<" and ">" are used to mark off visible Internet addresses (i.e., URLs) shown above, which are NOT in the book, but have been inserted to assist study, like this: < www.submission.org/suras/sura9.html#31 >.
   "[" and "]" or doubled brackets, also marking some material not in the book, are inserted to show additional references to help study. ENDS.]
   [COMMENT: Re-read these. 8:12 is supposedly Allah (their god) saying He "will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers" and ordering the Believers to smite "above their necks" and smite off "all their finger-tips". Allah in 9:30 allegedly declares that Jews and Christians imitate previous Unbelievers, and says "Allah's curse be upon them." The ideas of Jihad (holy war) and conquering the world for Islam (i.e., submission) are in the footnotes partly quoted above. ENDS.]
   [SIMILAR TEXT: For a similar text visit < www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/ quran/002. qmt.html# 002.193 >, or read from the Hadith < www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/ fundamentals/ hadithsunnah/ bukhari/023. sbt.html# 002.023.414 > . For a wider look, click Submit / Koran, and Submit / Hadith. ENDS.] [Year 1413 H., 1992-93 A.D.]
• Fast Facts on Islam; What You Need to Know Now.

Fast Facts^® on Islam

What You Need to Know Now    Book, © 2001, by John ANKERBERG and John WELDON, Harvest House Publishers, Eugene (Oregon, U.S.A.), Pages 102-04
   Chapter 30: Is Radical Muslim Terrorism Non-Islamic?
   Fast Facts on Islam, ANKERBERG and WELDON

[…] Certainly, radical Islam is not how the religion is practiced by the majority of Muslims, who are nonviolent. … the radicals … their message would not find the success it has were there not some supporting basis within Islam. Three "supports" for their message are Kharijism, Wahhabism, and jihad.
   Two forms of Islam
   Kharijism was an early sect in Islam that fits quite well with modern radical Islam. In early Islam, a civil war was fought over the "true" successor to Muhammad, a conflict that led to the division between the majority Sunni and minority Shiite branches of Islam. A group later named the Kharijites ("withdrawers") believed that only God could determine the proper successor, and that He would let His will be known in battle.
   The Kharijites

held that any person who strayed from the perfect practice of Islam was ipso facto an apostate and could be killed. And they believed that only they had the true notion of what Islam required. They had the true notion of what Islam required. [sic] They applied their doctrine with a ferocity against both the developing Sunni and Shi’a traditions of Islam. … Their tactics were frightfully violent, and it took centuries before they were put down. ¹⁷²

   […] "Kharijite uprisings continued…in Iran, Iraq and Arabia;…Kharijism was suppressed in Iraq but continued to play an important political role in eastern Arabia, North Africa, and eastern Africa. Kharijism survives today in these areas." ¹⁷⁴
   The form of Islam called Wahhabism also lends itself to extremists like [Osama] bin Laden. Muwahhidun, the term used by followers, was founded by Muhammad ibn ’Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) in Saudi Arabia, and is predicated on the Sunni teachings of Ibn Hanbal (780-855). […] Muwahhidun became in inspiration to other Islamic reform movements from India and Sumatra to North Africa and the Sudan. […]
   Wahhabism's ultimate purpose is to bring about a global revolution base on Wahhabi teachings, […]
   Because much other Islamic tradition also divides the world into two opposing camps, the dar al-Islam (the realm of Islam) and the dar al-harb (the realm of war), between which there is to be unending conflict, the radicals feel further justified in their point of view, and believe that Islam is destined for victory by Allah.
   […] But in spite of what moderates may believe, and even though the radicals do not completely represent true Islam today, they do have a basis in Islamic history for their beliefs.
___________________
   ENDNOTES:
172. David F. Forte, "Radical Islam vs. Islam," (<http://www. heritage. org/views/ 2001/ ed091901. html>)
174. <http://www. princeton. edu/~batke/ itl/denise/ kharijis. htm>

[EMPHASIS, i.e., bolding of two words, added by Webmaster. ENDS.] http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/reading.htm#fast_facts_on_islam [To WWW May 06, 2008; book 2001]

HUSAIN, Ed, 2007, The Islamist; Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left.

Ed Husain is the man we were all looking for after the 7/7 bombings in London two years ago. The Islamist, Ed HUSAIN; Penguin book

Not to "help police with their investigations", as they still say during police manhunts, but to help a stunned nation understand what had happened to it. Like dozens of other reporters, I walked the streets of Leeds talking to the friends and families of three of the July 7 bombers in an unsuccessful attempt to understand how three boys born there and a fourth who had emigrated from Jamaica as a baby had turned into homegrown Islamic terrorists, young men capable of playing a friendly game of cricket one summer evening and then blowing up trains and buses jammed with their fellow Britons the next morning.
   Husain knows how that transformation happened because he has been through the same process of alienation, grooming and indoctrination. The East London-born son of Indian and Bangladeshi immigrants spent five years moving deeper and deeper into radical Islamist circles in London and has written a book explaining his time as an active player in the groups that he now believes prepare young Muslims to be potential terrorists.
   That book, The Islamist, is the first such account by a highly articulate young Briton of his journey into and out of that mindset, and it has been eagerly welcomed by British commentators and politicians who are still desperately trying to understand what leads to such extremism, and how to battle it. -- The Weekend Australian, "The enemy within," by Peter Wilson, Books, Review section pp 8-9, June 16-17, 2007
   ¶ And see STM Entertainment, a supplement of The Sunday Times (Perth, W. Australia), book review by Anna Kurnuszko, p 24, August 19, 2007.
   The failed bombings in London and Glasgow have thrown into the spotlight the latest breed of terrorist -- the educated professional. Husain is a British Muslim of a middle-class family who felt alienated at high school from the many recently-arrived Bangladeshi students. He was an extremist from age 16 for five years. "A book that should be read, but will it?" Verdict: Top-notch. Penguin, $24.95. (Acknowledgement: E.B.) http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/reading.htm#the_islamist

GABRIEL, Brigitte, September 2006, Because They Hate: A survivor of Islamic terror warns America.

   Lebanon used to be a rare democracy in a very dark Near East. It had a Christian majority; Muslims and non-Muslims were said to live together in peace and calm, with the highest living standard in the area.
[Picture] Because They Hate front cover.    Picture: Powell's Books.
   But in 1975 radical Muslims from surrounding nations declared jihad on the Lebanese Christians, and poured into southern Lebanon to set up a Muslim state, and to impose sharia law.
   The author was a Maronite Christian girl, who was 10 years old when the rape of Lebanon began, and lived through the terror.
   In her book she says that the radical Muslims warned of what they were going to do, and they have also warned of what they intend to do to the Western nations, having declared a holy war against the West.
   The hatred and venom that Muslims have for Jews is discussed carefully.
   Muslim radicals set up rocket attacks from Christian areas, then quickly pull out, leaving the Israeli reprisals to fall on the Christians.
   The Arabic terms relating to the propaganda that the radical Muslims use are taqiyya (deception) and kitman (secrecy).
   The author states that the Islamic obligation to impose its rule on the world are at the heart of mainstream Islam. We must reject the myth of moderate Islam.
   MORE DETAILS: New York: St Martin's Press; hard cover, 272 pages, recommended retail price AUD$49.95. Based on a review by Bill Muehlenberg, in News Weekly (Australia), March 31, 2007, pp 20 and 22. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/reading.htm#because_they_hate [2006]

MAI, Mukhtar, with Marie Thérèse CUNY, transl. Linda COVERDALE, 2006, In the Name of Honour.

In the Name of Honour, Mukhtar MAI, 2006; Photograph © Anjum Naveed/A.P./Sipa; 22.2kb

Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof.
   After the horrific rape, custom dictated that she would kill herself. But Mai defied custom. In an unprecedented act of courage, she took her rapists to court.
   In this rousing and moving account, Mai describes her experiences and readers get a rare look inside a world of ancient tribal justice, rampant illiteracy, poverty, and economic and sexual bondage.
   Mukhtar Mai pitted herself against the system with extraordinary courage and strength of purpose. Timely and topical, In the Name of Honour is the inspirational true story of a woman who continues to fight against exceptional odds; since the trial some of the convictions have been overturned, leaving Mai in a decidedly dangerous situation.
   Nevertheless, Mukhtar Mai remains in her village where she runs the first ever school for girls - seeded with money awarded to her by the Pakistani government in her historic settlement - and is an eager pupil there herself.
   ‘It is because of the support of the world that I feel brave’ -- Mukhtar Mai
   [DESCRIPTION: London, Virago Press www.virago. co.uk, A memoir. 174pp, No contents, no index, 1 picture - Photograph © Anjum Naveed/A.P./Sipa. 15.3 x 23.3cm (6 x 9 1/8 inches), soft covers, ISBN 978-1-84408-409-8, U.K. £10.99. Originally published in French by Oh! Editions, Paris. ENDS.]
   [FOOTNOTE: The original name of the author was Mukhtaran Bibi (p 70 and p 150). Her book was written with Marie Thérèse Cuny, translated by Linda Coverdale. Preface by Nicholas D. Kristof. ENDS.]
   [LINKS: To help her work with schools for girls and boys, contact the Mukhtar Mai Women Welfare Organization at www.mukhtar maiwwo. org , or mukhtarmai wwwo@gmail. com . ENDS.]
   [DOCTRINE: 4:15 (or 4:14, or 4:19):- If any of your women be guilty of whoredom, then bring four witnesses against them from among yourselves; and if they bear witness to the fact, shut them up in their houses till death release them, or Allah make some way for them. DOCTRINE ENDS.]
   [COMMENT: This is why Islamic Sharia courts hardly ever find any man guilty of rape. The Koranic law has been written so that no MAN will be convicted -- who could really expect that there will be four adult male Muslim men witnessing the rape (and, not offering to help the victim, No?). If, however, the woman says that there was sex, she has condemned herself to the punishment for nonmarital sex, which they confusedly call "adultery". ENDS.] [2006]

CHULOV, Martin, 2006, Australian Jihad.

   AUSTRALIA: Core Islamic belief: Religion, politics & military action are inseparable.
   So just who is to blame for this very obvious National Security Risk? How do you feel about your tax dollars funding Islamic expansion in Australia & Indonesia?
   Will the Government fix it? Can the Government fix it? Will the Politicians fix it'? Can the Politicians fix it?
   It can be done if we, the voters tell them to fix it, Vote the current establishment out; that is the coalition, Labor and Democrats, and vote in a party or independent loyal to Australia.
   The bloodstained militancy of Islam against the non-Muslim world is set in stone. Muhammad has made an ongoing certainty of this fact.
   The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has made a Public Statement, "There is only one Islam".
   The Howard Government once again is advocating appeasement, which previous examples have shown is the forerunner to disaster.
   Australian Female Citizens in particular need to know what Islam has exclusively in store for them. # -- E-mail, November 22, relayed December 15, 2006. www.ideology aus.com [2006]

DILLING, Elizabeth, 1956 or later, The Plot Against Christianity

The Babylonian Talmud takes precedence, in Judaist teaching, over the Jerusalem Talmud and over the Torah and the Old Testament generally. The plot against Christianity, Elizabeth DILLING; 50.8kb

The plot against Christianity, Elizabeth DILLING; 50.8kb

   "… the Babylonian Gemara … Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era — 1626 years; from the days of Cyrus down to the age of the Mongol conquerors!" (Exh 34, p 154)
   The photostats show that "… with the destruction of the Temple … Henceforth Jewish life was regulated by the teachings of the Pharisees; … Pharisaism shaped the character of Judaism and the life and thought of the Jew for all the future." (Exh 264, p 270) (The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1905, New York and London, Funk and Wagnalls, p 666)
   Much of the Talmud seems to be an explanation of how to find scripture quotes to evade and even contradict the main commandments of the Hebrew scripture. Examples follow:
   "On the eve of the Passover, Yeshu was hanged. … Was he not a Mesith (enticer), concerning whom Scripture says, Neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him? (Sanhedrin 43 a, Soncino Talmud pages 281-2; Exh 46-47, p 160.)
   "Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that, Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not treated as with a child above that." (Sanhedrin 54b, page 371; Exh 54, p 164)
   "For murder, whether of a Cuthean by a Cuthean, or of an Israelite by a Cuthean, punishment is incurred; but of a Cuthean by an Israelite, there is no death penalty'?" ("Sanhedrin," 57a, page 388; Exh 57, p 165)
   "Raba said: If one bound his neighbour and he died of starvation, he is not liable to execution. … Raba also said: If he bound him before a lion, he is not liable, … (Sanhedrin, 77a, page 520; Exh 85, p 179)
   Advice is given not to trust non-Judaist wet nurses or surgeons. (p 58)
   She also provides evidence that Judaists are members of a cultural group, not a race, with pictures of Jews of black African and Chinese appearance. (pp 34-35) Photostats of 20th-century newsitems demonstrate the continuity of the philosophy, and help identify the people of interest. (see pp 65-82)
   During a 1931 family trip to Communist Russia, the author had seen the "open virulent anti-Christ campaign everywhere." (p 5) Dilling discusses links between the Soviet Russian leadership and methods, and a variety of writings.
   -- The Plot Against Christianity, 1956 or later, by Elizabeth Dilling (Box 659, Chicago 90); Possibly self-published, probably United States of America. ISBN and Congress Library Card numbers unknown. 314pp, soft covers, 21.5 x 28 centimetres (8 ½ x 11 inches), index, photostats of sources, ($30 Perth, W. Australia, July 2006.)
   The Talmud source quoted above is: The Babylonian Talmud, in several volumes 1935-36, Rabbi Dr I. Epstein (editor), London, The Soncino Press. [?~ 1956]

STENHOUSE, Paul (~ 2004 translator) of Shihab al-Din Ahmad bin 'Abdu 'l Qader bin Salem bin 'Uthman, orig. 16th century, Futuh al-Habasha (The Conquest of Abyssinia)

This text is a key to understanding current events in the Horn of Africa. It gives an eye-witness account of jihads waged by Muslims against Ethiopian Christians in the early part of the sixteenth century. It is available through Amazon.
Notes to the translation have been provided by Professor Richard Pankhurst in Addis Ababa.

NEWTON, P, and HAQQ, M. Rafiqul, ©1995, March 2001 (originally 1995), Women in Islam.

Women in Islam, P. NEWTON and M. Rafiqul HAQQ

(p 1) The purpose of this booklet is to consider the place of women in the pure teaching of Islam. It must be recognised that neither every Muslim, nor every Muslim nation follows all of these teachings. These teachings come from both the Qur'an and the Hadith. The Hadith is 'The Tradition of Muhammad'; that is, the stories of Muhammad's deeds and sayings. (Page 1) […]
(pp 13-15) The Qur'an states:

Righteous women are therefore obedient, … And those you fear may be rebellious, (nushuz) admonish, banish them to their couches, and beat them. ⁵⁷

   … Pickthall and Rodwell translate the word 'edrebouhon _ beat them' as 'scourge them'. […]
   So the man has the right to beat his rebellious wife as long as that beating is not like the whipping of the slave and will not result in injury.
   The translator of Mishkat Al-Masabih wrote in a footnote of Fatwa by Qazi Khan that said beating the wife mildly is:

allowed in four cases (1) When she does not wear fineries though wanted by the husband, (2) When she is called for sexual intercourse and she refuses without any lawful excuse, (3) When she is ordered to take a bath [to clean herself] from impurities for prayer and she refuses and (4) When she goes abroad without permission of her husband.

In another footnote the translator of Mishkat Al-Masabih said,

No wife shall refuse her husband what he wants from her except on religious grounds i.e. at the time of menstrual flow or fasting. Some theologians regard this refusal as unlawful as the husband may get enjoyment from his wife in other ways, by embracing, kissing etc. The duty of the wife is to give him comforts in his bed whenever he wants her.

This beating is the husband's unquestionable right.
Ibn Kathir, in his commentary, mentioned a Hadith on the authority of zal Ash'ath Ibn al-Qays who was visiting 'Omar and at that time. 'Omar took his wife and beat her, then said to Ash'ath:

Memorise three things from me, which I memorised from the prophet who said: The man is not to be asked why he beat his wife …'

Man's right to 'beat his wife' does not belong to the distant past. The Guardian Weekly reported:

In 1987 an Egyptian court, following an interpretation of the Koran proposed by the Syndicate of Arab Lawyers, ruled that a husband had the duty to educate his wife and therefore the right to punish her as he wished. ⁶⁵

Sayyed Qotb, a modern scholar and commentator, tries to justify the provision for a man to beat his wife, found in the above Qur'anic verse:

The facts of life, and the psychological observations of certain forms of deviations indicate that this approach (beating the wife) is the most appropriate one to satisfy a particular form of deviation, reforming the behavior of the person … and gratifying her … at the same time! Even without the existence of this form of psychological deviation, perhaps some women will not recognise the power of the man whom they love to have as their guardian and husband, except when the man conquers them physically! This is not the nature of every woman. But this kind does exist. And it is this kind that needs this last treatment to be set straight, and remain within the serious organisation [marriage] in peace and tranquillity.

ENDNOTES:
57. The Qur'an, 4:34. (Arberry's translation). [ www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/ quran/004. qmt.html #004.034 . ]
65. Guardian Weekly, 23/Dec/1990, Violence against Women Highlighted, p. 13.
   4th EDITION DETAILS (where different): Re-published 2006, Website: www.debate. domini.org/ newton , E-mail: newton@ integrity.org .
   DETAILS (3rd edition): Published at Bend (Oregon, USA): The Berean Call, www.tbcorders. org/default. asp ; Copyright ©1995, 3rd edition March 2001, ISBN 0-88264-310-x. 68pp, soft covers, 15 x 21 centimetres (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches), contents, Arabic section, no index, endnotes (AUS$5 Free Australia Movement, PO Box 9091, Wyee, NSW, 2259, Australia.)
   ALSO see entry in date order, 1995, at: Submit / Submission Chronology # Women [orig. 1995, 2001 and 2006]

DAWOOD, N.J. (translator), 2003 (originally 1956), The Koran.

   2:193 (or 189):- Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme. …
   2:216 (or 212):- Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it.
   4:3:- … marry one only or any slave-girls you may own.
   4:23-24:- You are also forbidden to take in marriage … married women, except those whom you own as slaves.
   9:123:- Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous.
   24:33 (or 34):- … You shall not force your slave-girls into prostitution in order that you may enrich yourselves, if they wish to preserve their chastity. If anyone compels them, God will be forgiving and merciful to them. www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/ quran/024. qmt.html #024.033 .
   33:50 (or 49):- Prophet, We have made lawful for you … the slave girls whom God has given you as booty; … www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/ quran/033. qmt.html #033.050 .
   33:51:- You may put off any of your wives you please and take to your bed any of them you please. Nor is it unlawful for you to receive any of those whom you have temporarily set aside. …
   33:52:- It shall be unlawful for you to take more wives or to change your present wives for other women, though their beauty please you, unless they are slave girls whom you own.
   33:57:- Prophet, enjoin your wives, your daughters, and the wives of true believers to draw their veils close round them. …
   DETAILS: Camberwell: Penguin Australia www.penguin.com.au ; revised up to 2003 (first published by Penguin Classics 1956), ISBN 0 14 300217 1. Cover design by Adam Laszcuk. 456pp, hard covers, 12.7 x 20 centimetres (5 x 7 7/8 inches), contents showing Arabic names of surahs, index, no pictures ($9.95 Angus & Robertson, Warwick, W. Australia, Sep 28, 2006.) [orig. 1956; 2003]
SCHWARTZ, Stephen, ≤ 2006, The Two Faces of Islam; Saudi Fundamentalism and its Role in Terrorism.

"Minces no words.. Schwartz's opinions are not just forcefully expressed; they are born out of a sophisticated and informed vision of history." 346 pp softcover. [PICTURE of front cover] $30.00 -- Fidelity magazine (Australia), fidelity@ j23.com. au , "9/11 : A Prophecy," By Giuseppe Bernardini, p 6, March 2006 [≤ 2006]

BAR, Shmuel, 2006, Warrant for Terror: Fatwas of Radical Islam and the Duty of Jihad.

(Rowman and Littlefield) www.powells. com/partner/ 24626/biblio/ 0742551202 .

UNITED STATES of AMERICA: Jihad is jihad, and the world is now spinning from so many jihads issued by so many Muslim clerics based on so many citations to the Koran and hadiths of the prophet that ordinary men and women will be excused for not taking the recherché explanations seriously and focusing on the jihads which shed blood, like the ones in Iraq and Indonesia and India and Israel and Egypt and the Philippines and Great Britain and Spain and (yes, even) France and, lest we forget, these United States of America, one clear morning just five years ago.
Militant Islam and militant Arab nationalisms have a cohort of self-deployed apologists. I know one is not supposed to talk ill of the dead. But Peter Jennings was the most present among these, since 1972. -- "The Meaning Of Jihad," The New Republic Online (U.S.A.), www.tnr.com/ blog/thep lank?pid= 19225 , June 03, 2006 [2006]

BROOKS, Geraldine, ≤ 2006, Nine Parts of Desire.

In this account of Islamic women across the Middle East, Geraldine Brooks notes that one in five Muslim girls lives in a community where some form of female genital mutilation is religiously sanctioned. Yet in the Koran (4:119) it is only Satan who talks about commanding a change to "Allah's creation". -- "Islam’s gender crisis", The Weekend Australian, October 28-29, 2006 [≤ 2006]
   [COMMENT: The article mentions Koran 4:119, but the word "only" is wrongly used in the article. Compare these two translations: --
   (Rodwell's) They call, beside Him, upon mere goddesses! they invoke a rebel Satan!
   On them is the malison of God. For he said, 'A portion of thy servants will I surely take, and will lead them astray, and will stir desires within them, and will command them and they shall cut the ears of animals; and I will command them, and they shall alter the creation of God. He who taketh Satan rather than God for his patron, is ruined with palpable ruin:
   He hath made them promises, and he hath stirred desires within them; but Satan promiseth, only to beguile!
   120 These! their dwelling Hell! no escape shall they find from it!
   (Dawood's) Rather than to Him, they pray but to females: they pray but to a rebellious Satan.
   God has laid His curse on Satan, for he had said; 'I shall entice a number of Your servants and lead them astray. I shall arouse in them vain desires and order them to slit the ears of cattle. I shall order them to tamper with God's creation.' Indeed, he that chooses Satan rather than God for his protector ruins himself beyond redemption.
   4:120 He makes promises and stirs up in them vain desires; Satan makes them promises only to deceive them. Hell shall be their home: from it they shall find no refuge.
   [Aya or verse numbering differs in different books.] COMMENT ENDS.]

ABRAHAMIAN, Ervand, ≤ 2006, Tortured Confessions.

This is a book about Iranian prisons by Abrahamian, a historian. -- New Internationalist, Jan-Feb 06 [≤ 2006]

EGGERS, Dave, 2007, What is the What: The Autobiography of Achak Deng

. [Partially fiction]

   Acclaimed novelist Dave Eggers has turned a genocide survivor's memories into a powerful novel about the attacks of the Janjaweed against black Africans in Sudan.
   It has fictionalised accounts mixed in with the memories of one of the "lost boys" who walked more than 1000km across desert and jungle to a Kenyan refugee camp.
   He says he saw raids on his southern Sudan home area, children taken as slaves, and much cruelty. -- based on The West Australian, WeekendExtra page 7, Saturday, August 4, 2007 [2007]

CORERA, Gordon, ≤2006, Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network.

(Scribe, $30). Corera is a BBC journalist specialising in security issues. -- The Weekend Australian, August 19-20, 2006 [≤ 2006]

SHEEHAN, Paul, ≤ 2006, Girls Like You.

. Pan Macmillan, 388pp, $32.95 -- The Weekend Australian Review, by Shakira Hussein, "Books," p 12, August 5-6, 2006 [≤ 2006]

VAN NIIEUWKERK, Karin, ≤ 2006, Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West.

(To be published by the University of Texas Press, August 2006.) -- The Record, "Exchanging hedonism for the headscarf, " By Carolyn Moynihan, Vista liftout pp 2-3, Thursday, January 19, 2006 [? 2006]

BOSTOM, Andrew G. (ed.), 2005, The Legacy of Jihad.

www.amazon.com/ exec/obidos/tg/ detail/-/1591023 076/qid= 1124927694/ sr=8-1/ref=pd_ bbs_1/002-8662893- 4522465?v=glance &s=books&n =507846 .
   Islamic holy war is unveiled in this book, which is essentially made up of documents, many of which have been translated for the first time from Arabic or Farsi, or have been reproduced from books of oriental studies that would be difficult for the general public to find.
   The documents range from Mohammed in the seventh century, to the twentieth century. And they include the classic texts on the topic of jihad by Muslim theologians and jurists, accounts of war from ancient and modern witnesses, and analyses of jihad by scholars of varying outlooks.
   -- "The year Rome was sacked," Annals Australasia, annalsaust ralasia@nareg. com.au , pp 6-7, January-February 2006
   Also read a review at: www.frontpage mag.com/ Articles/ ReadArticle. asp?ID= 19406
   and a review by Professor Johannes J.G.Jansen, in Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2008, according to Annals Australasia, "War, Subjugation and Expansion," p 3, January-February 2008 [2005]

SOOKHDEO, Patrick, March 2006, Islam, the Challenge to the Church

   Barnabas Fund, E-mail, 12 April 2006
   BRITAIN: "Islam, the Challenge to the Church" is the latest title from Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Fund, of Britain.
   The growing impact of Islam on Western societies raises many issues which pose an urgent challenge, directly or indirectly, to the Church.
   In "Islam, the Challenge to the Church", published last month, Dr Sookhdeo tackles this challenge, covering areas such as a theological understanding of Islam, the impact of Islam on Western society and education, Christian-Muslim relations, comparing Islam with Christianity, building friendships, dialogue, reconciliation and mission, as well as practical and pastoral issues relating to Islam.
   This book is essential reading for Christians in the West as they seek to think through these issues and respond to the challenge in a way which is wise, loving, biblical, effective and Christ-like.
   Order from Barnabas Books, £5.99 plus 60p postage & packing. (UK & EU only. For postage and packing to non-EU countries, please contact them.) Cheques made payable to Barnabas Books, at The Old Rectory, River Street, Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9 5DB, UK. Or, orders with credit card payments can be made
· Telephone 08700 603 900. From outside the UK phone +44 1672 564938.
· Fax 08700 603 901. From outside the UK fax +44 1672 565030. -- Isaac Publishing, 2006, 125pp, ISBN 0-9547835-4-9
   Barnabas Fund's e-mail news service provides the media and our supporters with urgent news briefs concerning suffering Christians around the world. Tel: +44(0)1672 564938, Fax: +44(0)1672 565030, E-mail: info@barnabas fund.org . Web: www.barnab asfund.org [2006]

Skeptics Annotated Koran

. www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran , Jan 20, 06 [≤ 2005-06]

WAKO, Gabriel Zubeir (Cardinal), 2005, Roll Back the Stone of Fear; Prayer-Poems and Letters from the Suffering Church in Sudan

(Edited by John Pontifex.) Aid to the Church in Need. 98pp, illustrated. Obtainable from ACIN, PO Box 6245, Blacktown DC, NSW, 2148, Australia. $10 including postage.
There has been news of the two million Sudanese who have died violent deaths since around 1963 as the Islamising Khartoum government continues its campaign. In the last several years the United Nations Organisation has unsuccessfully attempted to stop the killing and raping of mostly non-Muslim people in the South. Nations like Iran have supplied sophisticated weapons to the Khartoum Government with which they armed the militias and set them loose on non-Muslims. -- The Record (Western Australian Roman Catholic newspaper), "A new book of prayer-poems and letters by Cardinal Wako of Sudan reveals a portrait of persecution and … Uncommon Valour," Book Review by Fr Paul Glynn, December 8, 2005 [2005]

HAMID, Dr. Tawfik, 2005, The Roots of Jihad.

   Dr Tawfik Hamid was a former member of the Egyptian radical group Jemahia Islamia. Now he dedicates his life to speak out against Terrorism.
   He attacked the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of his fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe.
   "Our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims."
   Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, slavery, and wars to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam.
   We curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques. We call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys".
   We curse non-Muslims, and teach our generations to call them infidels, and to hate them. … -- E-mail from "Shoebat.com" news@shoe bat.com , Wed, Dec 28, 2005
   [DOCTRINE (Koran): 4:3:- … marry but two, or three, or four … or the slaves whom ye have acquired.
   4:34 (or 38):- … Virtuous women are obedient … But chide those for whose refractoriness ye have cause to fear; remove them into beds apart, and scourge them…
   5:64-65:- O people of the Book! … some of them hath he changed into apes and swine …
   5:85:- Of all men thou wilt certainly find the Jews, and those who join other gods with God, to be the most intense in hatred of those who believe; and thou shalt certainly find those to be nearest in affection to them who say, 'We are Christians.' …
   2:227:- … God loveth no infidel, or evil person. …
   4:76 (or 78):- Believers fight for the cause of God, but the infidels fight for the devil. Fight then against the friends of Satan. ENDS.]
   [GUIDELINE (Hadith): 9, 84.57:- "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him." ENDS.] [2005]
YE'OR, Bat, 2005, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis. Bat Ye'or is a leading specialist in the condition of subordination systematically imposed by Islam upon the non-Muslim subjects of conquered countries. She is also the author of an essay published in 2005, carrying the eloquent title 'Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.' -- "The Year Rome Was Sacked," Annals Australasia, annalsaust ralasia@nareg. com.au , by Sandro Magister, pp 6-7, January-February 2006 [2005]
ALI, Tariq, (planned for) November 2005, Rough Music, Verso, 104pp, paperback; Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan, $17.95. Burning with anger, this quick-fire and hot-tempered response to the London bombings, subtitled Blair/Bombs/Baghdad/London/Terror, is as hard-a*sed as it is hard Left.
   Tony Blair is not just misguided, he is a ruthless menace to democracy and willing to destroy thousands of lives to suck up to George W. Bush. The shooting on the London Tube of innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was not an accident committed by nervous police but a "public execution" intended to show everybody that the security services meant business. Torture and detention without trial are other weapons deployed by a government "determined to dodge the fact that the recent wave of violence in London was provoked by its own disastrous [foreign] policies". -- The Weekend Australian Review, "High price of war," page R 8, October 22-23, 2005 [? 2005]
PAPE, Robert, ? 2005, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. In his new book, Robert Pape writes: "[But] in general, suicide attackers are rarely socially isolated, clinically insane or economically destitute individuals but are mostly educated, socially integrated and highly capable people who could be expected to have a good future.
   "The profile of a suicide terrorist resembles that of a politically conscious individual who might join a grassroots movement more than it does the stereotypical murderer, religious cult member or everyday suicide." -- The Weekend Australian, "Enemy within; the biggest challenge," pp 19 and 28, July 16-17, 2005 [? 2005]
FAWKNER, Patty (ed.), 2005, A Fair Go in an Age of Terror, David Lovell Publishing, Australia, $18.95. The Australian Jesuits' Social Justice Centre, Uniya, organised a series of Lenten seminars in 2003 and 2004 on the topics of Muslims and Christians -- Where Do We All Stand? and A Fair Go in an Age of Terror. Participants in the seminars included Jesuit and Muslim academics, a Buddhist monk, lawyers and high-school students.
   Their contributions have been collected in a new book: A Fair Go in an Age of Terror, edited by the director of Uniya, Good Samaritan sister Patty Fawkner. It is a collection of views that are both erudite and down-to-earth and well worth reading in an era of intolerance. -- The West Australian, "Dialogue bridges religious divide," "Belief & Beyond" column, "Weekend Extra" page 14, Saturday, January 15, 2005
   [DOCTRINE: 5.51 - O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people. www.usc.edu/ dept/ MSA/ quran/ 005.qmt.html #005.051 .
   5.80 - You will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve; certainly evil is that which their souls have sent before for them, that Allah became displeased with them and in chastisement shall they abide. www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran/ 005.qmt.html #005.080 .
   9:123 (or 124):- O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil). www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/ quran/009. qmt.html #009.123 . DOCTRINE ENDS.]
   [COMMENT: This sort of book is what makes Western politicians soft as putty in facing the harshness of intolerant faiths like Islam and others. Like PM Chamberlain facing Hitler, anyone imbibing the errors in this sort of book would be fooled into thinking they were facing a logical "partner in dialogue" in this world, instead of facing people to whom death is nothing, as they believe in a dream world after death, the paradise of 72 self-renewing virgins (the houris). COMMENT ENDS.] [2005]
BURKE, Jason, date unknown, Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam. He says that once indoctrinated, they see their actions merely as a war between faith and falsehood.
   "They do not see London's population as civilians but as accomplices to acts of murder and violence," he writes. "The bombers have long forsaken any national identity and no longer consider themselves as anything other than members of the ummah, the global community of Muslims, on whose behalf they are waging war." -- The Weekend Australian, "Enemy within; the biggest challenge," pp 19 and 28, July 16-17, 2005 [≤ 2005]
JUERGENSMEYER, Mark, date unknown, Terror in the Mind of God. The author says the most important motivator of these suicide bombers "is the intimacy to which the humiliation is experienced and the degree to which it is regarded as a threat to one's personal honour and respectability". -- The Weekend Australian, "Enemy within; the biggest challenge," pp 19 and 28, July 16-17, 2005 [≤ 2005]
BURUMA, Ian, ≥ 2004, Murder in Amsterdam.
   He writes in this that Hirsi Ali's dream of liberation for the Muslims in the West is being sabotaged "by the Western cultural relativists with their anti-racism, who say: 'If you're critical of Islam, you're a racist, or an Islamophobe, or an Enlightenment fundamentalist'."
   Buruma says Hirsi Ali sometimes reminds him of Margaret Thatcher but her real ambition is to be the Voltaire of Islam, to bring the Enlightenment to Allah with a Muslim Life of Brian. -- see The Weekend Australian, "Dangerous odyssey of Muslim Voltaire," p 27, by Rebecca Weisser, February 3-4, 2007 [≥ 2004]
The World from Islam, George NEGUS; 22.7kb

The World from Islam, George NEGUS; 22.7kb

NEGUS, George, 2004 (orig 2003), The World from Islam; A journey of discovery through the Muslim heartland.

   AUSTRALIA: In this updated edition George Negus adds new thoughts on the complex topics of faith, war, and Islam. The book asks: Whose side is God on?
   Through conversations with people in Islamic countries, from sheikhs and mullahs to academics and former slaves, Negus explores these questions pre-occupying non-Muslims in our post September 11, post-Bali bombing, post-Saddam Hussein, world (see back cover).
   A key to understanding Muslims is to notice that many times a day they will say insh-allah, God willing. They believe that their entire daily existence is governed by Allah (God) (see page xxv).
   … Dubai and the United Arab Emirate sheikhdoms … As in so many Arab-Islamic states, democracy, in any of its … variegated and inconsistent Western forms, has not even flowered, let alone flourished (see p 94).
   In the early 1980s, the Israelis planted and exploded a massive car bomb in the crowded West Beirut district of Lebanon's amazingly resilient capital. … more than 150 Arab-Muslims were killed. (p 275)
   The World from Islam; A journey of discovery through the Muslim heartland., 2004, George Negus, HarperCollins, 292pp, contents, no index, maps, some pictures, 12.8cm x 19.8cm (5 by 8 inches), soft covers, ISBN 0 7322 8048 6. Dewey 261.27.
   [DOCTRINE: 23:1, 5, 6:- Blessed are the believers … who restrain their carnal desires (except with their wives and slave-girls, for these are lawful to them …) [See also 24:33]
   33:50 (or 49):- O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom God hath given thee as spoils …
   41:6985 (Sahih Muslim's collection):- … Allah's Messenger … saying The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews … ENDS.] [2004]
NAZER, (Ms) Mende, and LEWIS, Damien, 2004, Slave; The true story of a girl's lost childhood and her fight for survival.,

Virago Press, Britain. Slave, by Mende NAZER and Damien LEWIS

This tells the story of Mende, enslaved at the age of 12 by Arab-language raiders in Sudan, and abused for years in Khartoum (capital city) and later in London, before becoming free. The raiders who attacked her little town operated under the protection of the Sudan military. After cutting off the heads of the adults in her village with knives, the raiders gathered and began to chant, "Allahu Akhbar! Allahu Akhbar! Allahu Akhbar! -- God is Great! God is Great! God is Great!" (p. 95).
The book review quotes two scriptures supporting slavery, discussing enslaved females as "lawful for" or "lawful to" them:

33:50 -- Prophet, We have made lawful for you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave-girls whom Allah has given you as booty. http://www. usc.edu/dept/ MSA/quran/ 033.qmt.html #033.050
23:1, 5, 6 -- Blessed are the believers … who restrain their carnal desires (except with their wives and slave-girls, for these are lawful to them … [Dawood's translation] http://www. usc.edu/dept/ MSA/quran/ 023.qmt.html #023.001 .

   MURDERING BLACKS: 'Mende, there is no justice here. We were the first people in Sudan. The Arabs came from far away and took our lands and ruled over us and they became rich men. Now, they come and kill us, because they want to exterminate all the black people. …' -- Mende Nazer's father. (Pages 72-37)
   CONTACTS: Anti-Slavery International, Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard, Broomgrove Rd, London SW9 9TL, England, info@antislavery.org .
   Human Rights Watch, 2nd Floor, 2-12 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9HF, England, www.hrwuk@hrw.org [sic].
   www.sudanslaves.org . (p 326)
   DETAILS: Virago Press, www.virago. co.uk , London; 328pp, soft covers, 12.7cm x 20cm (5" x 8"), contents, no index, no footnotes or endnotes, ISBN 978-1-84408-116-5, UK price £7.99. ENDS.
   READ REVIEW, "Black slaves in Sudan," by Andrew Lansdown, Life News, published by Life Ministries, Perth (WA), pp 3 and 10-11, December 2004. Life Ministries, 4 / 334 Wanneroo Rd, Nollamara, WA, 6061; Tel 08 9344 7396, www.iinet. net.au/~life . [2004]
VAN GOGH, Theo, ~ 2004, FILM "Submission". NETHERLANDS: In November 2004, an Islamic fanatic ritually murdered Mr Theo Van Gogh, a filmmaker. He was shot in broad daylight and a chilling letter to Ms Hirsi Ali was pinned to his chest with a knife. "Wish for death if you are really convinced you are right," it said.
   Their crime? Collaborating on a short film called Submission, highlighting the abuse of Muslim women at the hands of their menfolk. […] -- Australian Reader's Digest, editors.au@ readersdigest. com , BY SUSANNAH HICKLING, pp 78-83, Dated June 2006, received ~ May 16, 2006 [~ 2004]
GRAY, Paul, 2004, Nightmare of the Prophet. Paul Gray is a columnist on political and international affairs for an Australian daily newspaper, the Herald Sun, Melbourne (Victoria) Australia. Publisher: Freedom Publishing Co, 2004, 170pp, Paperback $24.95, ISBN 0-9578682-7-8. Freedom Publishing, 582 Queensberry St, North Melbourne, Vic 3051 Tel 03 9326 5757, fax 03 9328 2877, books@newsweekly.com.au . Postage in Australia $4 one book, each extra book $2. For overseas freight, contact Anna. (For a description from the preface, click "Nightmare".)
   [COMMENT: There is no quotation of, let alone discussion of, the old texts -- Koran and Hadith -- which are used by people giving supposed "reasons" for violence, murder, open insurrection, forced marriages, clothing restrictions, imposition of shariah law, and animal death brutality. For the subjugatory Pact of Umar and the Shariah as well, try reading Patrick Sookhdeo's 2002 book A People Betrayed and Irshad Manji's 2003 book The Trouble with Islam.
   The semi-slave condition of women and the supremacism of men in Muslim lands was clearly brought to the attention of the West (again) by Betty Mahmoody's story in the 1987 book Not without my daughter, and the subsequent film around 1990-91.
   Periodicals: In addition, an RC group publishes Aid to the Church in Need Mirror www.aidto church.org regularly about persecutions by Communists, Muslims, and Hindu extremists. Another Christian group issues The Voice of the Martyrs www.vom. com.au monthly, with similar articles of horror and degradation.
   Go back in history: 7th century -- Islam's supremacist policies at its beginning gradually became known to Europeans because of the massacres, invasions and occupations of the lands occupied by various cultures, including Christians and Jews, in Arabia, and then the wars to seize the Christian heartlands of the Near East by Arab Muslims from AD 633 onwards. "Islam or the sword" was used by some of the Arab invaders. Invasions and attacks reaching as far as France in the west, Austria in central Europe, and Persia and India, kept many warriors busy. (At various times Europe had been also attacked from the north by Vikings, and from the east by various forces.)
   12th C: It was not until 1143 AD that the Koran was translated into Latin.
   "Pagans": A year after the Muslims captured the Christian city of Edessa, on December 1, 1145, Pope Eugene III, inviting Christian leaders to re-take the Near East from the Muslims, described previous expeditions as having freed "from the filth of the pagans that city where our Saviour willed to suffer for us, …" -- The Papal Encyclicals in their historical context, 1956, Anne Fremantle, Mentor Books, New York, page 67.
   13th C: Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) wrote Summa Contra Gentiles to turn back the doctrines that had been taught by the Muslim Averroes in Spain and other areas. In later centuries the attacks of the Muslim Ottoman Turks were so prolonged that the word "Turk" became a general term used in discussing Muslim dangers to Europe, as can be seen if referring to the writings of people in Dr Martin Luther's time.
   15th C: The Muslim Turks, with a Venetian cannon-maker's aid, on a Tuesday in 1453 overthrew the Christian Eastern Roman Empire in Asia Minor. Other attacks occurred. The fear of the Turks by educated Europeans can be noted in the writings of people such as Martin Luther (1483-1546) and his contemporaries.
   17th - 20th C: English translations: The Koran was translated into French by André du Ryer, and from that in 1649 into English by Alexander Ross. The first direct translation into English from the Arabic was by Sale in 1734, and others include Rodwell 1861, Palmer 1880, Pickthall 1930, Bell 1937-39, and Arberry 1955. (See Alan Jones's 1994 introduction to J.M.Rodwell's translation, page xxvi)
   Therefore, it is surprising that Mr Gray writes as if he had no notion of such literature and statements by the Roman Catholic Church, and more amazing that his book is being fostered by Christian groups who ought to know how shallow it is, or could easily find out by looking in a good encyclopaedia and on the Internet. The Australian Jesuits' Social Justice Centre, Uniya, is another group that has been operating, it seems, in a vacuum, judging by its 2005 publication of a report of feel-good symposia, A Fair Go in an Age of Terror. ENDS.] [2004]
I, Safiya, TUDU and MASTO; 22.8kb

TUDU, Safiya, with MASTO, Raffaele (tr. TANZI, Andrew) 2004 (orig 2003), I, Safiya.

   This is the true (the book says), first-hand account of one woman's courageous struggle for justice, and the story that in 2001 made the eyes of the world turn to the small Nigerian village of Tungar Tudu.
   Safiya Hussaini was accused of adultery, arrested and taken from her farming village in northern Nigeria. Brought before a Sharia court, she was sentenced to death by stoning. Her crime was to become pregnant outside of marriage; she had given birth to a little girl, Adama. (She had other prior children by her previous marriages.)
   The child's father had promised marriage, she says, but had never come to the village to see her father and make the arrangments. The child's father at first accepted responsibility, but then changed his story, denied everything and was released without penalty.
   She was sentenced to death by stoning. She ran away into countryside, then turned back to seek help from her uncle. Supported by her parents and cousins and her faith in Allah, she was determined to stay alive to care for her new little girl.
   Her brother had betrayed her to the sharia people, but he later repented. Her extended family hired a lawyer, Abdulkadir Imam Ibrahim. Then someone got the facts about the death sentence to the world's news media. The BBC interviewed her. The lawyer showed her newspapers from various countries. She writes: "I didn't think anyone would be concerned enough about my ordeal to write about it in the newspapers. … Those strangers from so far away knew who I was and wanted me to live."
   Reporters from around the world attended the appeal at the sharia court. Her lawyer made a speech quoting from the Koran and other Muslim and Nigerian writings. He had found a Koran sura (verse) that the male semen could remain dormant in the womb for up to three years. She had been divorced three years.
   She was declared not guilty. Raffaelo Masto, an Italian journalist (of Radio Popolare from 1989), helped her a lot, and co-authored the book.
   An Italian association that had campaigned for her to be freed from the stoning sentence organised a trip to Rome for her, where in 2002 she was declared an honorary citizen of the Commune of Rome. She lives in the village, having remarried, and is carefully using the money she received from news and other organisations for her husband and children.
   -- Pan Macmillan Australia, 2004, Sydney; First published © 2003 by Sperling & Kupfer Editori S.p.A., Milan, Italy; English language translation by Andrew Tanzi, © 2003 by Sperling & Kupfer Editori. ISBN 1 4050 3599 4, 222 pages, 15.5cm x 23.5cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches), Soft Covers, Contents, 8pp of coloured pictures, No index, No footnotes, Dewey 305.4869; RRP $30; $12.50 from Angus & Robertson, Warwick, (Perth), Western Australia, March 03, 2006.
   [GUIDELINE: 3, 17:4206 ff (Muslim's collection):- … Allah's Messenger, I have committed adultery … He entrusted the child to one of the Muslims and … she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they stoned her. … END.] [2004]
KHOURI, Norma, 2003, Forbidden love, Bantam Books, Sydney. [It was NOT a true story.]
[In July and August 2004 the authoress's bonafides were challenged, and the publishers withdrew the book from booksellers. It was said that she had lived since early childhood in the USA and that it was unlikely she had witnessed the actions she stated in the book. News media and others checked, and the publishers recalled the book. Plans for a sequel were abandoned. Australian Reader's Digest later published an exposure of the author's real life, pp 72-76, October 2004.
~~Dalia, a Muslim young woman hairdresser, at her Amman home died in an "honour" killing by her father for going out with a Christian army officer in the Jordanian army.~~ Forbidden Love. -- based on Australian Reader's Digest, "Forbidden Love; A harrowing ~~true~~ story of love and unforgiving honour in Jordan today," by Norma Khouri, pp 140-156, October 2003. [It was NOT a true story.] [2003]
DAWOOD, N.J., translator, 2003 (orig 1956), The Koran, Penguin Australia, Camberwell (Victoria, Australia) www.penguin.com.au and www.penguinclassics.com; 456 pp, 13 x 20 cm (5 x 7 3/4 inches), hardcover; index 20 1/2 pp, footnotes. ISBN 0 14 300217 1. September 2003 from Angus & Robertson, Perth, W.A..
   "… good women are therefore obedient, … and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them …" -- Sura 4 "Women", aya 34, (4.38 in some books), www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran/ 004.qmt.html #004.034 .
   "I shall strike terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their fingers!" -- Sura 8 "The Spoils", aya 12 (8:12, page 127) www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran /008.qmt.html #008.012 .
   "Blessed are the believers … who restrain their carnal desires (except with their wives and slave-girls, for these are lawful to them …)" -- Sura 23 "The Believers", ayas 1, 5 and 6 (23:1, 5, 6), www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran/ 023.qmt.html #023.001 . [Emphasis added] [2003]

St Martin's Press, New York. SUDAN: Wherever people scattered they ran into men with guns entering the town. First men on horses, shooting people with bursts from their rifles. Then men on foot, shooting and slashing at people with their swords. They were not Dinka, but people with lighter skin than ours, in headdresses and robes. They were shooting the Dinka men, slashing with their swords, chopping off heads with a single swipe. … I raced from the marketplace, right into a huge horse with a militiaman pointing a gun at me. I stopped; I could not move. Someone grabbed me from behind - another murahaliin, yelling and waving his gun. … All around I saw people screaming and falling to the ground and not getting up. He pushed me back into the marketplace with other boys and girls. Everyone was crying and screaming for their parents. (The author, who spent years after that as a slave, finally escaped. He now works for the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), Iabolish.com .)
-- Australian Reader's Digest, editors.au@readersdigest.com , "Escape from slavery," by Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan, pp 128-146, issue of January 2006, received December 21, 2005
23:1, 5, 6:- Blessed are the believers … who restrain their carnal desires (except with their wives and slave-girls, for these are lawful to them …) (See also 24:33) [2003]

The Challenge of Islam to Christians, Pawson, Amazon Books

PAWSON, David, ? 2003, The Challenge of Islam to Christians.

   BRITAIN: On-line Review at Amazon Books: "Courageous wake-up call to Christians," www.amazon. com/gp/product/ customer- reviews/ 0340861894/ ref=cm_cr_dp_ pt/102-2777236- 9707317?%5 Fencoding=UTF8 &n=283155 &s=books , December 21, 2003. Reviewer:M. D Roberts (Gwent, United Kingdom)
   […] the author does indeed address many of the aspects of Islam and pulls no punches when he describes that the God of the Bible and the god of Islam are definitely NOT one and the same Person.
   The text revealing in no uncertain terms that the God of the Bible has a Son, Jesus Christ, whereas the god of Islam, Allah, is described as having no son whatsoever. The book is not what some would call "politically correct" and boldly declares that not all religions lead to God …
   The text further expounding that Islam is "false" […]
   The book describes how even the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, has been quite open about his sympathy with Islam with reference included to his public suggestion that when he is crowned and also the "head of the Church of England", how he wishes his title to be changed from "Defender of the Faith" to "Defender of Faith", that is of all religions.
   Another issue addressed in the text is how the media are described as not daring to ridicule Muhammad for fear of offending Muslim sensibilities, whereas it appears to be open season for attacking Christianity and even Jesus Christ Himself. The significance of these issues are dealt with in further detail in the text itself.
   … pointing out that there are more Christian martyrs today than ever before. Most victims described as being in such areas as Southern Sudan, Central Nigeria, Eastern Indonesia and other such areas controlled by a Muslim majority. …
   The Challenge of Islam to Christians (Paperback), Amazon Books; List Price: $13.95; Price: $10.74 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. You Save: $3.21 (23%). Availability: Usually ships within 3 to 6 weeks. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. 13 used & new available from $9.22. [? 2003]
   [COMMENT: This book was written before the world's news media became more courageous, following the outrages throughout Iraq, and in other Asian countries, London, and Madrid, and before the Danish cartoons and the murders and destruction that were contrived a few months after they were published. Unfortunately, the "politically correct" Establishment people have not learnt, and sometimes persecute those who expose the problem. COMMENT ENDS.] [? 2003]

ALI, Daniel, and SPENCER, Robert, 2003, Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics,

Ascension Press, West Chester (PA, USA); 180pp, 14cm x 21.75cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), Soft Covers, Endnotes, Index, Endnotes, Appendix Nostra Aetate of Vatican II. $AUD 32 on Nov 28, 2005. ISBN 0 - 9659228 - 5 - 5.
   UNITED STATES: Rome. Mecca. What's the difference?
   Islam. For some, the word itself is frightening; for others, mysterious. For all of us, it is a religious force that cannot be ignored. With the terrorist attacks of September 11, the recent war with Iraq, and the ongoing crisis plaguing the Holy Land, Islam is in the news now more than ever. Yet most Catholics know little about this formidable faith--an ignorance that could have dramatic spiritual and socio-political consequences. Now there's a book on Islam written specifically for Catholics.
   Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics utilizes a popular question-and-answer format so that all Catholics--both the theological novice and the well-catechized--can learn the basics of Islam. Co-authors Robert Spencer and Daniel Ali, a convert from Islam, give you a solid understanding of Islam's unique teachings including:

The Islamic view of God and its dramatic implications

The role of Jesus in Islamic theology

Islam's controversial theology of jihad, or "holy war"

Why Islamic theology can breed terrorist activity

Why anti-Semitic texts in the Koran seriously strain Jewish-Islamic relations

How the Koran and other Islamic writings directly contradict what God has revealed in the Old and New Testaments

How Islamic theology undermines the inherent dignity of the human person

Why women in many Islamic countries are denied basic human rights

Why Islam may soon become the world's largest religious group
   Inside Islam is an essential resource for anyone who wants to know more about this historic faith from the Middle East.
   Daniel Ali converted to Catholicism from Islam in 1998. He has gained national recognition as the founder of the Christian-Islamic Forum. He is also the co-host of the video series "Islam and Christianity" with Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J. on the Eternal World Television Network.
   Robert Spencer is the author of two previous books on Islam, Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter Books, 2002), and an in-depth study of jihad, Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery Publishing, 2003). (from the back cover)
   Extracts from Question 89: If it is a religion of peace, why does Islam impose the death penalty on Muslims who leave the faith?
   […] Professor Anh Nga Longva of the University of Bergin in Norway visited Kuwait in 1997 to investigate the case of Husayn Ali Qambar, a convert to Christianity from Islam who had been sentenced to death for his conversion. In discussions with Kuwaitis, Longva found that "those who opposed [the death penalty for Qambar] based their position on the Koranic verse (2:257) that says 'no compulsion is there in religion'. But more often than not, the same verse was quoted in front of me to show that precisely because Islam is such a tolerant religion, there are no possible excuses for apostasy." ⁹⁰ (pp 125-126)

⁹⁰ Anh Nga Longva, "The apostacy law in the age of universal human rights and citizenship: Some legal and political implications," The fourth Nordic conference on Middle Eastern studies: The Middle East in globalizing world, Oslo, 13-16 August 1998, www.hf.uib. no/smi/pao/ longva.html (p 165)

   [COMMENT: People who are not interested in the Catholic theology interwoven in this book might still find it worthwhile for the valuable references to the holy books of the Muslims, the Koran and the Hadith, also known as the Sunna, and to the historical and current evidence in this book.
   Pages 149-159 lists some of the contradictory teachings and commands in the Koran and the Hadith.
   The footnote of Professor Longva's paper about "universal human rights and citizenship" shows the myopia of someone who doesn't seem to realise that human rights are concepts with some force for less than 25 per cent of the world's people, and are retreating. The author in 2003 could not have known that three of the few democracies in the world were unravelling 800 years of the freedom fight. The three Iraqi invading nations have removed the rights to freedom from their own citizens as well as from outsiders under so-called "anti-terrorist laws". The last of these to throw away Magna Carta and Habeas Corpus was Australia, where in November-December 2005 it became an offence for anyone to tell anyone that a loved one had been "detained" without charge or trial under these evil laws. Even children can be detained. A person who is NOT suspected of planning terrorist acts or to have done them can be detained if an official decides they might know something about such. This means nearly everyone, even those reading this commentary! This will impinge on the classical freedoms of the Anglo-Celtic peoples, and muzzle Free Speech and Freedom of the Press. COMMENT ENDS.]
   [OBTAINABLE: U.S. publisher: Ascension Press, PO Box 1990, West Chester PA 19380, USA; www.ascension press.com .
   Australia: John XXIII Fellowship Co-operative Ltd, www.j23.com.au/ , shop@j23.com.au , PO Box 22, Ormond (Melbourne) Vic, 3204, Australia. ENDS.] [2003]

WARRAQ, Ibn, Why I am Not a Muslim

. He opposes it from the point of view of an atheist wedded to the principles developed via the Enlightenment. Information received Dec 12, 2005.
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MANJI, (Ms) Irshad, 2003, The Trouble with Islam; A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith

The Trouble with Islam, front cover, 22.7kB

   A dramatic call for reformation and tolerance in the Islamic world.
   Irshad Manji calls herself a Muslim Refusenik. 'That doesn't mean I refuse to be a Muslim,' she writes. 'It simply means I refuse to join an army of automatons in the name of Allah.' These automatons, Manji argues, include many so-called moderate Muslims in the West. In blunt, provocative, and deeply personal terms, she unearths the troubling cornerstones of Islam as it's widely practised: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism, and an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, and therefore superior, manifesto of God.
   In this open letter to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, Manji asks pointed questions about mainstream Islam. 'Why are we all being held hostage by what's happening between the Palestinians and the Israelis? Who is the real coloniser of Muslims - America or Arabia? Why are we squandering the talents of women, fully half of God's creation?' Manji offers a practical vision of how Islam can undergo a reformation that empowers women, promotes respect for religious minorities, and fosters a competition of ideas. Her vision revives Islam's lost tradition of independent thought. This book will inspire struggling Muslims worldwide to revisit the foundations of their faith. It will also compel non-Muslims to start posing the questions we all have about Islam today. In that spirit, The Trouble with Islam is a clarion call for a fatwa-free future. (from the back cover)
   Sample: "In the months after September 11, one question above all others pestered me: Since the Koran makes room for the exercise of free will, why do the governing geniuses of Islam seem to default into narrowness? Why don't more of them choose the path of openness? I had to go beyond the Koran. I had to find the incubator of Pavlovian Muslim prejudices.
   "To do so, I had to peel back more layers on the lies we're telling." (p 49)
   IMPORTANT WEBSITES INCLUDE: arabia.com (especially the chat room) (offline on 07 Sep 05); beliefnet.com ; islamfortoday.com ; memri.com (Middle East Media Research Institute) ; npq.com (New Perspectives Quarterly) ; pbs.orgsaudiinstitute.org (a Saudi reformer) (not displaying 07 Sep 05) ; secularism.org ; wluml.org (website of Women Living Under Muslim Laws). (p 235).
   DETAILS: Random House Australia (orig. Canada), Sydney; 240pp, 15.5cm x 23.4cm (6in x 9 1/8 in), Soft Covers, ISBN 1 - 74051 - 292 - 8. Recommended readings, important websites, and acknowledgements; Contents, no index. Source notes to support claims in the book are on her website, www.muslim- refusenik.com . ENDS.]
   [FOOTNOTE: The Arabic and Urdu editions of The Trouble with Islam Today are now available online for free! (Sighted on the Internet Sep 7, 2005) • Read or download the Arabic edition • Read or download the Urdu edition. ENDS.] [2003]
SPENCER, Robert, 2003, Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, an in-depth study of jihad. (Regnery Publishing, 2003). [2003] A People Betrayed; Patrick Sookhdeo, 2002

A People Betrayed; Patrick Sookhdeo, 2002

SOOKHDEO, Patrick, 2002, A People Betrayed,

Christian Focus Publications, Fearn (Ross-shire, Scotland) www.christianfocus.com , and Isaac Publishing, Pewsey (Wiltshire, England), 460 pp, 14 x 22 cm (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches), hard covers, glossary, bibliography 50pp, index. ISBN 1 85792 785 0.
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